Comatose woman who received an abortion...

RECOVERING. A

February 13, 1989

MANHASSET, N.Y. — RECOVERING. A comatose woman who received an abortion after a two-week legal battle was in guarded condition Sunday. Her family is considering moving her to a rehabilitation facility in New Jersey or Boston. Nancy Klein, 32, was at North Shore University Hospital with all signs stable, a hospital spokesman said. She has been in a coma since she was severely brain damaged in a car accident Dec. 13. Martin Klein, her husband of nine years, began proceedings Jan. 26 to become her guardian so he could order an abortion doctors said could aid her recovery. Abortion opponents challenged Klein from local courts to the U.S. Supreme Court, losing when Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to issue a stay Friday. Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday that the full Supreme Court would review the case. Justices could decide the case is moot or examine legal aspects for future cases. The abortion was performed Saturday morning. Klein was 17 weeks pregnant.